Provisions relating to the modification of the Assembly's order of business

Resolution 1062 (1995)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

See Doc. 7297, report of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, rapporteur: Mrs Aguiar. Text adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 22 May 1995.

Thesaurus

1. The Assembly notes that for terminological reasons a confusion is easily made between "agenda" and "order of business" of the session.

2. Problems have also arisen with respect to the majority required for modifying the order of business for the first time during a part-session.

3. In order to clarify this, the Assembly decides to insert, in Rule 16, paragraph 8 of the Rules of Procedure, before the last sentence, the following text: "The adoption by the Assembly of such an alteration shall require a majority of the votes cast. [(1) Only affirmative and negative votes shall count in calculating the number of votes cast (Rule 35, paragraph 5 of the Rules of Procedure).']